I recently finished my teaching at Ravensbourne in London and thought it useful to reflect on my experience. Part of my role there was to find a way to integrate theory with practice. It was never difficult to talk to students about ideas or to show them work and speak... read more →

For me, 2017 promises much; a range of new opportunities, new ideas and new students to work with. With the changes that lie ahead, including working at a new university, there are some questions connected to photography that I wish to think about in more detail. Over the coming weeks... read more →

What does drone photography tell us about our society? These aerial photographs – which I’ve started to see more and more unnecessary versions of - show a dis-located view of their subject. They are a distortion of perspective and position that separates subjective observation from the observed object. In this... read more →

This is a video of a talk I gave in 2015 entitled: "The indecisive moment: the multiple instances of photography." This is outlining some of my ideas and arguments that challenge the received ideas of what photography and photographs are and are becoming. I begin with a consideration of the increasing disappearance and mutation... read more →

I’ve just had two intense weeks at Birkbeck’s London Critical Theory Summer School. Teaching was scheduled throughout the two weeks with summary debates on each Friday. During the first week we had: Michael Lowy taking “Marxism and Romanticism,” Jacqueline Rose taking “Limits of theory, limits of thought – psychoanalysis/politics/sexual difference,”... read more →

I've been commissioned to write an essay for Membrana and Fotografija magazines and I'm going to be considering how Snapchat operates. For users of the image messaging Snapchat app, expressiveness is largely mediated through in-built filters and extensive use of short pieces of text and emojis. Everything is also contingent upon the disappearance... read more →

Around this time last year I built a web based application called Periphery Vision (you can read about it in the project section of this site). It took me a few weeks to build and test and play with but the end result was effective and demonstrated what I wanted... read more →

I recently had published in the latest RPS Journal an article entitled, "Why study for a photography degree?" This was partly to frame the APHE conference Meshworks, which I helped to organise. It was also to start to articulate thinking around the problem of degree level study of a subject... read more →

It’s been a busy few weeks. I went up to the first week of Freerange's photography exhibition and met up with colleagues and students. There’s no doubt, it was a great experience for students to learn all the things that go into exhibiting work – from fundraising through to hanging... read more →

After heading to Falmouth University library to pick up some papers and an interlibrary loan book, that it turns out I could not remove from the library building, I went over to the Institute of Photography’s graduate show. There I was lucky enough to bump into course leader Adrian Brown... read more →